Description: Local Name: Karacasu Local Information: Located in Karacasu Dump, overlooking the left bank of the Karındere, a tributary of the Morsynus, approximately 6 km west of Aphrodisias Latitude: 37.43.11.711 Longitude: 28.39.45.648 Elevation: 498.989m Axis: N-S Dimensions: Dromos: L: 4.0 m; W: 1.3 m ** Antechamber: L (not including doorways): 2.5 m; W: 1.45 m; H: 1.65 m; L (Depth) of outer door: 0.50 m; W of outer door: 1.06 m; L (Depth) of inner door: 0.55 m; W of inner ** door: 0.95 m ** Chamber: L: 2.78 m; W: 4.62 m; max. H: 1.98 m ** Diameter of mound: 40m Description: Dromos. The chamber complex is approached by a north– south-oriented dromos, which takes the form of a rock-cut trench in the side of the mound and was presumably roofed with stone slabs, although no trace of the roof survives. Three rock-cut steps are preserved at the south (outer) end of the dromos. ** Antechamber. The antechamber is a narrow tunnel—the rock-cut continuation of the dromos—with a shallow pitched roof. Doorways at both ends were presumably closed by fitted doorplugs (in both cases pushed up against the south or outer edges of the doorways). ** Chamber. Unlike the dromos and antechamber, the long axis of the chamber runs east–west instead of north–south, and the shallow pitched roof conforms to the same orientation. Arrayed along the sides of the chamber are five rock-cut couches: one on the west, two on the north, one on the east, and one on the east side of the south wall. Possibly the tomb was designed specifically for five internments. Had the arrangement of the west side of the chamber mirrored that of the east, it would have been possible to add a sixth couch and to center the chamber on the longitudinal axis of the antechamber; but the added couch and the extra effort that would have been required to make a larger, more symmetrically disposed chamber were apparently unnecessary. The couches are not benches but shelves, partially hollowed out underneath, with rock-cut "legs" at the ends of individual couches. The hollowing out of the undersides of the couches was apparently purely "aesthetic" in intention; it does not seem to have served a practical purpose, that is, such as making room for additional internments on the floor. The tops of the couches are themselves hollowed out to create sunken beds (interior L: 1.76 m to 1.91 m; interior W: 0.67 m to 0.69 m; vertical D: 0.17 m to 0.18 m; W of lips around the edges of the beds: 0.12 m to 0.14 m). The floor of the tomb is uneven, but the vertical distance from the highest point on the underside of the roof to the tops of the lips of the couches is 0.7 m. A final enigmatic feature of the chamber is the presence of two oval cuttings in the ceiling (0.4 m by 0.6 m), one situated over the floor on the east side of the chamber, one over the bed on the west side. These holes seem to have been cut all the way through the ceiling and may have served a practical function—as sockets for masts used as guides in the heaping up of the tumulus, for example—or, more likely, a ritual purpose, such as the pouring of libations.